Posted in The Trip on Feb 16th, 2006
Our next stop was a little town called Khuraburi, not really a resort town but a popular traveller’s hotspot for diving trips out to the nearby islands. There was a decent selection of bamboo and (more insect proof) concrete bungalows here. We had another rest day here to let Sedef recover fully, staying at a [...]
Posted in The Trip on Feb 14th, 2006
Leaving Ranong we headed down the mountains towards the sea – this time the Andaman sea (West coast of Thailand). Our first stop was the very quiet and sleepy Laem Son National Park, with only two places to stay. We chose the Dutch managed resort called Wasana, which we were told about by other fellow [...]
Posted in The Trip on Feb 10th, 2006
Chumphon is generally considered the starting point of Southern Thailand. One road heads towards the Eastern Coast, and another over the central hills towards the Western Coast. Having deliberated over the last few weeks on ‘East or West – which is best’, we opted for the more scenic Western Coast. We had more detail on [...]
Posted in The Trip on Feb 7th, 2006
Leaving Prachuap on the coastal road, we had a tough 200km over the next couple of days… First we took the wrong road (again!) and had to cycle an extra 10k around a peninsula, got attacked by a pack of 6 angry dogs, and then had to climb over a steep hill in the heat [...]
Posted in The Trip on Feb 3rd, 2006
Having found out where we were from the hotel manager and Miss ‘Wee’, we continued on the coastal roads and finally found our way to the National Park. There was so much to see in the national park, but we had to restrict ourselves to only the best sites, that were (roughly) on route for [...]
Posted in The Trip on Feb 1st, 2006
We left Hua Hin, still following the network of coastal roads (not on our map). We had a print-out from a fellow cyclist’s website which had a copy of a local tourist map from Hua Hin to the Sam Roi Yot National Park. We first cycled through a forest park, with an excellent mangrove nature [...]
Posted in The Trip on Jan 31st, 2006
Rather reluctantly (since it was such an amazing place) we left Bangkok and headed down south, excited that we would be at the seaside again after almost 3 months!! The last time we saw the sea was in Istanbul.. Despite the heat of Pakistan (and, to a lesser extent India), and our slow adjustment to [...]
Posted in The Trip on Jan 29th, 2006
With so much to see in this amazing city, our planned 3 day-break quickly transformed into 6 days!! We saw all the sights in our guidebook, and also did some exploring of our own at the less touristy places, such as the supermarket (where we had great fun browsing through loads of packets of stuff [...]
Posted in The Trip on Jan 22nd, 2006
Our plane landed in Bangkok (well 25kms from Bangkok!) in the early hours – we seem to be making a habit of this! We checked into a local hotel near the airport and had 12 hours of sleep each!! Tired after the boogie night and the flight. We head into Bangkok tomorrow – initial impressions [...]
Posted in The Trip on Jan 21st, 2006
We decided to leave India with a bang and a bit of clubbing action… …so we set out with Darius to explore the nightlife in Kolkata. He took us to the trendiest bar in town (‘Someplace Else’) where there was a resident rock band playing live rock favourites. We whipped the crowd there into a [...]
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